If all the robots can be connected, you may only need a personalized digital assistant in the future.

In the future, maybe you need a personalized digital assistant.

Robots are getting hotter and hotter this year, but in fact, the development of robots is still in its infancy. Barry Coleman believes that in order to make robots more naturally execute commands and interact like humans, the use of a new method called the "robot community" will become inevitable.

If you want to make predictions about the future, you must find traces from past deeds. Therefore, in order to understand what the next year's electronic technology will become, we should look back at the major developments in the electronic technology industry in 2016.

We can see that the development of the past year shows that the next phase of virtual reality and augmented reality, artificial intelligence networks and personalized digital assistants that help us operate various devices will appear in 2017.

If all the robots can be connected, you may only need a personalized digital assistant in the future.

Virtual reality world

There is a technology that basically occupies a full-page news page and appears on the birthday wish list of children and adults. It is virtual reality (VR, Virtual Reality). Since 2016, VR has also begun its booming business development as HTC, Oculus and PlayStaTIon compete to release their latest head-mounted products. However, 2017 is a very crucial year for VR because it is in a very dangerous position in the “hype cycle”.

A research method that predicts the market share of emerging technologies believes that this technology will mature, and it will achieve ultimate success after experiencing a high-profile publicity period and a sudden wake-up period. VR is currently on the edge of the "peak of inflation expectations", and the publicity of Daxie seems to be somewhat unrealistic, and people's novelty of products has been recognized before their quality.

In this mode of publicity cycle, when consumers realize that there is still a gap between what they expect and what they actually get, the peak of excitement and expectation will usher in an inevitable fall (experience "sudden awakening" period"). At this time, people's evaluation of VR will also be polarized. For some products, this may be just a small downturn, but for other products, this fall will be a precursor to failure.

The biggest problem with this disagreement is that consumers' attitudes toward VR games and existing products will become awake anger or patient patience. A more convincing argument is that the mobile-based VR platform will allow VR to survive 2017.

Augmented reality

However, stability does not mean success. One problem with VR is that consumer enthusiasm is mainly focused on entertainment, limited to games and videos that can be viewed 360 degrees. So far it has had very little impact on social or functional applications, such as it does not provide a communication platform on social media.

However, this is not the case for the more versatile but less well-known brother "Augmented Reality" (Augmented Reality). AR, which includes features that cover the actual image with additional images or information, has gained a lot of success on the gaming platform, especially after the release of the game Pokémon Go.

The function of the AR has far exceeded the scope of the game, it is an ideal transmission device for digital information with endless form. There are many ideas for the application of AR: a head-up display that can be used on a cyclist's helmet to provide a 360-degree view, to track a sudden overtaking vehicle to give a potential hazard warning; to virtually re-decorate the entire house without waste painting Visual cover device.

However, the real future of AR is that its potential can give us a new and improved approach that can't be done without AR, enabling us to implement content browsing and service delivery. As Microsoft's HoloLens and Google Glass suggest, in 2017 we may be able to use AR to view emails, post on Facebook, find the best way to get to the meeting place, all content will be transmitted directly to our eyes, no need for us Distract attention and don't need to disrupt our pace.

The current investment in AR is given to the relevant subordinate technologies in order of advantage, for example, the sounding camera lens and the physical environment mapping system.

This also shows that the industry is preparing to develop hardware to ensure that this exciting idea can be achieved. But this does not mean that all of AR's goals will be achieved in 2017, AR is creating opportunities, but whether it can be achieved or depends on the development of lower-level technology.

Robotic internet

In other areas, we may also see many research developments that have become commercial applications, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. This application may determine that 2017 will be the era of the Internet of Things, from cameras to electric kettles, millions of ordinary devices can be connected through the Internet.

The concept of the Internet of Things satisfies our desires – we are eager to keep a constant connection with the objects we use every day. In 2017, we will be able to make a cup of chocolate Cuban coffee to our coffee machine at home 5 miles away on our way home.

Of course, it may not be possible. But this interconnected idea has evolved into the field of artificial intelligence through "cloud robots." These systems enable robots that perform well on different tasks to perform specific tasks individually, but the solution must pass between the two robots.

Robots use the "cloud" to share data so that it can be analyzed by any robot or intelligent system in the same network. One robot teaches another robot something, and the other robot will continue to expand the content, and through this cooperation, the content can spread farther. This will increase the learning potential on a large scale and also increase the connection between machines.

Private digital assistant

All of these trends have paved the way for our 2017 final forecast: a humanized digital technology in the form of a smart personal assistant is coming soon. Essentially, these are data centers that mimic humans. They use the advantages of artificial intelligence to acquire and translate our data, use the Internet of Things to manipulate objects around us, and use augmented reality to enable them to run in our mobile world.

This will provide us with a single and natural communication platform with our digital connected world. It will be the next favorite object after Siri, Cortana and Alexa. It is a device that can be operated by us at any time, and can help us in almost every aspect of our lives. Assistant.

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